i hate when people belittle my state of mind or say I’m not depressed cause I don’t cut or starve myself. Self-harm exists in people’s thoughts and the fact that people judge my mental state based on the fact of how many scars I have is fucking stupid.
Depression is a mental ‘illness’, not a physical one. It’s true that for some people it becomes so much that it becomes physical. But I don’t cut. Neither do a lot of other depressed people. Some people have a battle in themselves and that shouldn’t be considered less severe than the fight of anyone else with depression.
Everybody’s got their demons.
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Nothing sucks more than not being the right kind of depressed.
i agree with you, some peoples’ attitudes about depression make me so angry. not all depressed people self-harm, obviously. i’ve cut and starved myself before, but i know depressed people who never have. it’s awful though, because depression isn’t taken seriously either way. it usually goes like this:
(depressed person who doesn’t self-harm)
ignorant person: “you can’t possibly be depressed, you don’t harm yourself!”
(depressed person who does self-harm)
ignorant person: “you’re not actually depressed, you just want attention/ it’s a phase/ etc.!”
some people just suck.
word.
I agree. I find it sad how people feel they have to compare their miseries and struggles, trying to say one person is “more depressed” than another, when no one does this type of thing for happiness. They just accept that they are happy.